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CompuCell 3D version 3.6.2 - 32 bit intel binaries
for Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard)
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This is a binary distribution of CompuCell 3D 3.6.2 compiled for i386
(intel 32 bit CPU) systems running Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) and later.

Download the file:   CC3D_3.6.2_MacOSX_vvvvvvvv_yyyymmdd.zip
where vvvvvvvv is the Mac OS X operating system version
and yyyymmdd is the date of the last build update.

An installer is not required for CC3D on Mac systems: just double-click
the .zip file and place the resulting "CC3D_3.6.2_MacOSX" directory
anywhere you want.
A good place is your computer's /Applications/ directory.

Or, for example if you don't have administrative-level permissions on
your system (such as on a public lab machine), you can simply create a
directory called "Applications" in your user/home directory, and place
the "CC3D_3.6.2_MacOSX" directory inside that "Applications" directory.


To start the CompuCell 3D player application from the Finder,
double-click the compucell3d.command file. The very first time you run
CC3D, you may get a system warning 'this application has been downloaded
from the internet'. On OS X 10.8 and newer, you may get a system warning
'"compucell3d.command" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified
developer.' In that case, control-click on the "compucell3d.command" file
and select "open" from the pop-up menu, then authorize with administrator
username and password.



To run CompuCell 3D from the Terminal, cd to the "CC3D_3.6.2_MacOSX"
directory and type:
./compucell3d.command <return>


CompuCell 3D is self-contained: all the required dependencies and
third-party libraries are included, such as Qt, PyQt, VTK, etc.
CompuCell 3D relies on the Python 2.5 distribution included by default
on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and later systems.



---- current release notes ----

This distribution of CompuCell 3D 3.6.2 is provided in three binaries:
the "10.8" distribution runs on OS X 10.8.0 and newer, and supports
the new CC3D OpenCL-accelerated code.
The "10.6_and_newer" distribution runs on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and
newer (including OS X 10.8) and does not support OpenCL-accelerated code.
The "10.5.8_32bit_i386" distribution runs on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and
newer (including OS X 10.6), in 32bit mode.
It can not run on PowerPC-based hardware.



---- previous release notes ----

Starting with release 3.6.0, build update 1885, the binary distribution
of CompuCell 3D compiled for Mac OS X includes BionetSolver 0.0.6.

Starting with release 3.5.0, CompuCell 3D provides parallel execution of
simulation computations, implemented using the OpenMP shared memory
multiprocessing software library.

Important note: starting with release 3.5.0, CompuCell 3D binary
distributions for Mac include three dynamic libraries from the gcc 4.6
package made available by the HPC for Mac site on SourceForge:
libgomp.1.dylib, libgcc_s.1.dylib and libstdc++.6.dylib.
The CompuCell 3D binary distributions for Mac OS X are now compiled using
gcc 4.6.0, since the default OpenMP dynamic library (libgomp) included
with gcc 4.2.1 on standard Mac OS X systems is not updated/supported by
Apple, and would crash at runtime.
A precompiled gcc 4.6.0 installation package for Mac OS X can be found on
the HPC sourceforge website at http://hpc.sourceforge.net/.